Cupcakes, kids art and incest

ON Bookworld’s website, you can find My first cupcake decorating book, Children’s book of art and Children’s book of mythical beasts. But until recently, other beasts lurked among the titles hosted by the online book seller, the rebranded version of Borders. Hundreds of titles appeared under the heading, Incest, titles far too explicit, not to […]

Bookworld forced to withdraw incest titles

How Bookworld profited from intra-familial child sexual abuse *Trigger warning – child sexual abuse, incest* We’ve just campaigned against Condom Kingdom selling products that eroticise sex with underage girls and therefore, paedophilia. But Condom Kingdom isn’t the only retailer providing masturbatory material for sexual predators. Bookworld – formerly known as Borders – has been selling […]

Collective Shout win against A Serbian Film: Review Board reverses decision

Film depicting extreme sexual violence now banned On September 14, Collective Shout made a submission to the Classification Review Board, calling for a review of the Classification Board’s April decision to grant the film an R18+ rating. We described scenes of extreme sexual violence against a child and against women. “A Serbian Film contains depictions […]

How the advertising industry and classification system fail women

Collective Shout makes a case for change that puts women and girls ahead of corporate profits Here’s two recent submissions (here and here) Collective Shout made to Federal Government inquiries into outdoor advertising and to an examination of the classification system. On April 4 I appeared before the House Standing Committee on Social Policy and […]